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Faculty:
Alexander M Clem, J Thomas Rhodes, III, Patrick M Regan, David McGuffey, Martha Eastman, Steven M Levin, JP Sawyer, Lesley Ann Clement, Kathryn Locatell, Kathy Ann Lee, Jeff E Rusk, Mark R Kosieradzki, Michael Baden, John Elliot Leighton, Laura Tamez, Thomas S Harmon, Marvin Isgur

Program includes

• Case Selection and Screening: Should You Take the Case? - Thomas S. Harmon
• How to handle the new HIPPA regulations
• Who are the defendants?
• Who is your plaintiff?
• Is there a malpractice case?
• Bankruptcy: How It Affects Your Case - Marvin Isgur
• Who is currently in bankruptcy? What is their status?
• How to handle the bankrupt defendant
• Proof of claims
• Creative Document Review - Mark R. Kosieradzki
• Innovative ways to get and use all the critical documents
• Effective use of 30b(6)
• Medical charts, reports, and evaluations
• Overcoming objections to production
• Deposing the DON and CNA - Steven M. Levin
• Who do you depose?
• Creative use of depositions to prove staffing deficiencies
• Order of depositions to best present your proof
• Effectively utilizing the chart
• Deposing the Administrator and Getting the Smoking Gun - J.P. Sawyer
• How to use the critical documents when deposing the Administrator
• Identifying reports that link the subsidiary to the national
• OSCAR reports and internal reporting to build your case
• Proving Medical Causation in the Elderly Case - Michael Baden, M.D.
• Linking bad care to negligence
• Recent studies that connect falls to death
• Conjunctive petiae
• Type of medical expert you will need
• Falls and Elopement from a Lawyer's Perspective - Lesley Ann Clement
• Laying the groundwork for liability and causation
• Standards, practices, and procedures
• Developing the case through the nurse's testimony
• Asphyxiation, Strangulation, and Restraints - Patrick M. Regan
• Nursing Home Litigation Group Meeting (Non CLE)
• Dehydration and Malnutrition - Kathryn Locatell, M.D.
• How to analyze the charts
• Understanding the medicine
• How they impact other conditions
• Pressure Sores - Kathy Ann Lee
• Development
• Prevention
• Treatment options
• Sepsis
• Dealing with defenses
• Goetzman and Liens: How to Deal with Them - Martha Eastman
• Update on the law
• Strategies to use in your case
• How to avoid legal malpractice
• Effective Settlement Techniques - John Elliot Leighton
• Resolving cases before (and after) trial
• Various ADR methods
• Tying your evidence together
• Preserving the Recovery After Settlement - David McGuffey
• Special needs trust
• Avoiding medicaid ineligibility
• Structured settlements
• Preparing for Trial - J. Thomas Rhodes, III
• Effective use of time lines
• What to do with caps on damages
• Motions in limine and other pretrial motions
• Daubert challenges
• Exhibits, charts, and demonstrative exhibits
• Order of proof
• Defusing Major Defenses - Jeff E. Rusk
• Themes to utilize if you are in a rural county
• The elderly client
• Co-morbidity defenses